Emilia.] LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 337 



Thwaites describes the flowers as purple, but as he does not distinguish the following, 

 I have not taken that character into account. 



5. E. Walkeri, Hook. f. ; erect, robust, quite glabrous, cauline leaves 

 many large upper half deltoid or ovate suddenly contracted into a broad linear 

 oblong lower half entire or sinuate-toothed, base deeply broadly auricled, heads 

 broad, invol. bracts shorter than the flowers, style-arms dilated towards the 

 short conic tips, achenes scabrid. E. prenanthoidea, Thwaites Enum. 167, in 

 part. 



CEYLON ; Central Province, Eamboddie and Newera Ellia, Walker, Thwaites, &c. 



This is a much larger plant than any of the preceding, with a stout polished often 

 flexuous leafy stem, and branches 2-3 ft. high, leathery leaves, and the heads and 

 invol. bracts broader; the achenes too are much larger than in E. zeylanica. 



78. NOTONIA, DC. 



Fleshy glabrous undershrubs. Leaves alternate, obovate or lanceolate, quite 

 entire or crenulate. Heads large, long-peduncled, corymbose, bracteolate or not, 

 homogamous, discoid, yellow ; flowers , all fertile, slender, limb elongate 5-fid. 

 Involucre cylindric ; bracts 1-seriate, equal ; receptacle flat, naked. Anther- 

 bases entire. Style-arms elongate ; tips short, ovate, thick, papillose or hispid. 

 Achenes long, subterete, 10-striate ; pappus hairs copious, slender. DISTRIB. 

 Species 4 or 5, all Indian. 



1. N. grandiflora, DC. in Wight Contrib.24-, Prodr, vi. 442; branches 

 short very stout, leaves obovate or elliptic-lanceolate or suborbicular quite entire 

 very fleshy, heads f-1 in. long, achenes glabrous, pappus hairs very slender 

 terete. Deless. Ic. Sel. iv. t. 61 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 132 ; Clarke Comp. 

 Ind. 176. N. corymbosa, DC. I. c. ; Wight Ic. t. 484. N. crassissima, Schults*- 

 Bip. in PL Hohenack. n. 1027, not of DC. Oacalia grandiflora, Wall. Cat. 3147 ; 

 0. Kleinia, Herb. Madras. 



Hilly districts of the WESTERN PENINSULA ; from the Concan southwards. CEYLON ; 

 in the Batticaloa district. 



A small shrub, 2-3 ft. high, very fleshy. Leaves 3-5 by 1-3 in., subsessile or 

 petioled. Flowering peduncles 6-12 in. long, stout, strict, naked; corymb of few or 

 many heads, which are f-1 in. long. Achenes % in. long. I cannot distinguish N. 

 corymbosa from grandiflora by any characters. 



2. N. balsamic a, Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 133 ; branches short very 

 stout, leaves oblong ovate-oblong or oblanceolate quite entire, heads f-1 in. long, 

 achenes glabrous, pappus hairs stiff flattened. Cacalia Kleinia, Orah. Cat. Bomb. 

 PL 98, not of Sprengel. 



The CONCAN and DECCAN ; in the inland ghats rare, Graham, Dalzell, &c. 



Very similar to N. grandiflora, but at once distinguishable by the pappus. Dalzell, 

 in the Bombay Flora, refers Graham's Cacalia Kleinia to N. grandiflora, but in Wight's 

 Herbarium there is a specimen of balsamica from Grahaai with the name attached to 

 it by himself. 



3. N. Walkeri, Clarke Comp. Ind. 176; branches long, leaves long- 

 petioled elliptic-lanceolate acuminate quite entire or crenulate or gland-serrulate, 

 heads \ in. long in very large compound corymbs, achenes sparsely hairy, pappus 

 hairs very slender terete. Gynura Walkeri, Wight Ic. t. 1122. Senecio 

 Walkeri, Thwaites Enum. 167. S. nilagerensis, Schultz-Bip. PL Hohenack. n 

 1353. 



NILGHERRY Mxs. ; in woods, alt. 7-8000 ft., Wight. CEYLON; Central Province 

 alt. 7-8000 ft., Walker, &c. 



Shrubby, 6-7 ft.; stems naked below, often 1 in. diam. Leaves 4-7 by 1-1^ in., 

 not so fleshy as in the preceding epecies ; petiole 1-2 in. Pedicels with usually many 

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